Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clifton Webb, Estelle Winwood, and Hope Williams have teamed up to instill life and pace into the vast windy spaces of Wilde's epigrammatic concoction. Wilde was a clever dramatist, but drunk with his own scintillating wit; as a result the first act is long-winded and talky. After that an excellent cast makes the most of the play's indisputable Victorian charm...
This production of "The Importance of Being Earnest" is first-class. Miss Winwood's directing is smooth, although the first act could be improved by cutting long speeches that leave the actors breathless and the audience a little bewildered. In these days of powerhouse realism and bitter satire, Oscar Wilde has the faintly cloying fragrance of too much old lavender; but he is still amusing...
...considered. How wide the appeal would be, how serious or how ephemeral the challenge to Harvard traditions, how practicable the affair from a mechanical point of view -- these are questions which the dance committees must decide. "De gustibus non disputandum est," and it may well be that an institution long discussed with a sneer can serve a useful and desirable purpose...
Publication of the long-awaited report by the Faculty Committee on Tenure and Appointments is expected within the next two weeks...
...Outcome of the long court fight between Jackie Coogan and his mother, Mrs. Lillian Bernstein: an agreement being submitted to court this week, to split the $250,000 remnant of the $4,000,000 which he earned as a child star...